Well, the 2012 PISA scores are out and Finland, the darling of the Western education world, has pretty much fallen off a cliff, while Asian city states now dominate the rankings. This means students can…

My weekly reads of note: I agree with this article, I do think social media and the internet are improving students writing skills. I also think we are collectively getting better at tests, not getting smarter as our…

I love tilt-shift photography. This amazing video, The Lion City from Keith Loutit shows why. It’s simply spectacular. Singapore has never seemed so ethereal yet vibrant. When I was a kid I loved playing with models for days…

The recent news about the Department of Education’s research department Institute awarding the majority of their EdTech allotted Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) innovation grants to gaming companies with promising educational products got me thinking about how my…

My colleagues, Matthew Forgy and Sonja Miljkovic, and I recently conducted a test run of Edmodo.com with a group of teachers. Edmodo is an educational social media platform designed to mimic Facebook so that it is…

From Springfield to Portlandia… I love my hometown, Portland. I want people to know about what a great–if a little strange–place it is. I grew up there, in fact I am fifth generation–a relatively hard feat for…

Some Thoughts on Flipping Classrooms & Economic Lesson Plans For a teaching class that I am taking this summer, Advanced Trends in Educational Theory, I was given an assignment to critically analyze three distinct lessons–with…

This is a graphic organizer that I thought would be fun to share. It’s my conceptualization of important factors that go into to teaching a specific concept. I developed this in an Advanced Trends in Teaching course that recently…